Metabolic Diseases Technical Articles
Article published the July 18, 2017:
Structural changes of dairy farms towards more and more bigger companies led in the last decades to a tremendous improvement of efficiency and performance of our high yielding dairy cows. Especially in the...
Article published the June 30, 2017:
Introduction
The peripartal or “transition” period in taurine cattle is considered the most important phase of the lactation cycle because during this time animals are most-susceptible to metaboli...
Article published the June 9, 2017:
Introduction
The liver performs essential functions in mammals. These include, but are not limited to, gluconeogenesis and glycogen synthesis, synthesis of several plasma proteins encompassing clotting factor...
Article published the April 12, 2017:
INTRODUCTION
An adequate supply of macro and micronutrients, such as trace minerals (e.g., Zn, Mn, Cu, Co), is important for ensuring an optimal transition from pregnancy to lactation (Andrieu, 2008). For ins...
Article published the March 13, 2017:
Milk quality is considered a welfare issue. Most dairy cooperatives have established quality-based payment programs to provide incentives to improve milk quality (Botaro et al. 2013). Total bacterial co...
Article published the December 2, 2016:
Introduction
During early lactation (i.e. the first 60 days of lactation), the massive repartition of nutrients to the mammary gland for milk synthesis has been identified as a major contributor to the high ri...
Article published the November 11, 2016:
Rumen-protected lysine (Lys) and methionine (Met) are becoming common fixtures in dairy rations, particularly in those where milk is sold not only for volume, but also for the component values.
Research and pr...
Article published the May 17, 2016:
1. Introduction
During calving nutritional requirements increase rapidly with lactation. Ketosis, or acetonaemia, is a multifactorial disorder of energy metabolism i.e. metabolic disorder and is largely ...
Article published the December 5, 2014:
One of the main problems faced by cattle raising are metabolic diseases. Many of these diseases are of nutritional origin, besides the stressful effect for animal overexploitation, and the high production requi...
Article published the September 10, 2014:
We have travelled a long journey from backyard dairy farming to a more systematic and organized dairy farming.
An array of changes starting from improved genetic potential to better milk production and advance...